Bio

I am a professor of physics at Binghamton University (SUNY at Binghamton). In 1965,
I received a BS degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder;
in January 1969, a PhD degree in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics from the
University of Maryland at College Park and after three postdoctoral positions came
to Binghamton in 1973 as assistant professor. In 1979-80, a sabbatical year was split
between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago and the Yukawa Institute
for Fundamental Physics in Kyoto, Japan. I am the author, or co-author, of over 100
publications in elementary-particle-physics/quantum-field-theory in international,
refereed scientific journals. From 1983-2004, I was supported by research grants from
the U.S. Department of Energy, and from 1978-1982, by the National Science Foundation.
I was the principal investigator on these grants. In 2000, I was awarded the Binghamton
University Award for Excellence in Research, in part due to my development of spin-correlation
methods which are used internationally by high-energy experimental groups to determine
P or CP quantum numbers and to search for possible “new physics” associated with recently
discovered particles such as the “top quark”, the “tau lepton”, and the "Higgs boson".
This research has also produced tests for new sources of CP-violation.

Currently, I am trying to understand why are there no particles other than fermions
and bosons? For example, no more than one electron (a fermion) can occupy a particular
quantum state, whereas any number of photons (bosons) can occur in the same quantum
state. For particle quanta in field theory, such particles are associated with addition
representations of permutation group and obey parastatistics with parabosons and parafermions.
“What are the unusual properties and 'new physics signatures' of such particles?”
“How can we determine whether paraparticles are responsible for the dark matter and
or dark energy of the universe?” "What are the simple tests for production of neutral
paraparticles at the Large Hadron Collider?"